Nurse Practitioners

Sister Lynette Holmes (f)

RGN 1998 Nurse Practitioner, Nurse Prescriber

Nurse Practitioners are trained to diagnose and treat many simple minor illnesses, injuries and infections. As well as reviewing medication and arranging tests and investigations they work with other members of the practice team to look after both acute illnesses and long term health conditions. They are are able to prescribe medications when this is appropriate.

Nurses

Sister Sue Cowley (f)

RGN 1985, MSc Healthcare Education 2005, Practice Nurse

Sister Qunhong Song (f)
Practice nurses are qualified and registered nurses. They can help with health issues such as family planning, healthy living advice, blood pressure checks and dressings. The practice nurses run clinics for long-term health conditions such as asthma or diabetes, minor ailment clinics and carry out cervical smears.

Healthcare Assistants

Karen Page (f)

HCA and NHS and New Patient Checks

Janine Ward (f)

Phlebotomist and Chronic Disease Monitoring

Healthcare assistants support practice nurses with their daily work and carry out tasks such as phlebotomy (drawing blood), blood pressure measurement and new patient checks. Healthcare assistants carry out some injections for the practice, they are able to do dressings and syringe ears. They may also act as a chaperone when a patient or doctor requests one.

 
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